Adjustable guide for hammers



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, ADJUSTABLE GUIDE FOR HAMMERS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 4, 1920.

1,405,799, Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN PAUL, 0F LANSING, MICHIGAN,

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To all whom it may concern.

' Be it known that I, STEPHEN PAUL,, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Lansing, in the county of Ingham and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new andluseful Improvements inAdjustable Guides for Hammers, of which the following is aspecification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has reference to punch presses, hydraulic hammers or anyother structure which has guides for a reciprocable member and whereinthe guides are held against accidental displacement and adapted to beadjusted from time to time to compensate for wear.

My invention aims to provide positive and reliable means, in a manner ashereinafter set forth, for adjusting and holding view of one oftheframes of the machine;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the same, and j Fig. 4 is aperspective view of a detached adjusting member. I

For the purposes of showing theguide adjusting means, it is thought onlynecessary to show a portion of a machine having frames l'between whichreciprocates a head or member 2. The confronting faces of the frames 1have longitudinal recesses 3 for guides 4 and the upper and lower endsof the guides are beveled inwardly from the inner faces thereof to theouter faces. Thebeveled end faces of the guides are designated 5 andsaid end faces have grooves 6' t receive the tongues 7 of adjusting members 8. The adjusting members 8 are somewhat in the form of wedgeshaving beveled walls 9 and flat walls 10, the flat walls 10 engaging thefiat end walls of. the recesses 3, as best shown in Fig. 2.

The adjusting members 8 have integral I. Specification of LettersPatent.

rods or bolts 11 extending through openings 12 in each of the frames 1and the inner ends of the openings 12 are enlarged, as at throughopenings 18 provided therefor in each of the guides 4, the said'openings18 aligning with the openings 15. The tapered members .18 have screwthreaded shanks 19 for nuts 20 which bear against the sides of the frame1 and ermit of the tapered mem:

bers 17 being shifted in either direction to distend the guides 4, thusermitting of said guides being properly a justed for a reciproca-blemovement of the head or member 2. After the guides 4 are adjusted by thetapered members 17 the adjusting members 8 may be tightened topositively clamp Patented Feb. '7, 1922. Appllcation fil e d October4;;1920. SerlalNoQ414A12.

which bear tapered members 17 extending the guides against the members17 and between the end walls of the recess 3.

' It is thought that the utility of my invention will be apparentwithout further description, and I reserve the right to make suchstructural changes as fall within the scggglof the appended claims.

at I claim is 1. In a forging machine, a frame having a recess andopenings communicating, with the ends of said recess, a guide in saidre-' cess and having beveled ends, and adjusting members in the'ends ofsaid recess clamping the beveled ends of said guide in said recess andoperatable' through the openings of said frame.

2. A guide for a forging machine, as characterized in claim 1, whereinsaid adjusting members have flat walls engaging end walls of saidrecess, and tongues extending into the beveledends ofsaid guide.

3. In a forging machine, a frame having a recess, and sets of openingscommunicating with said recess, a guide in the frame recess, adjustingmembers between theends of. said guide and the ends of said recess,

rods carried by said adjusting members and extending through one set offrame openings, nuts on said rods' against said frame, and adapted to beadjusted to clamp said mil adjust iiig mel iber's ai gainst said guideand means extending through said guide "ahd the other set offr-ameizopenin'gsfor'shift-"i ing said guide when said adjusting membersare 1005. i

4. A guide for a forglng machine, as

eharaetel iz edxin claim 3,; wherein said ad-,, justing members areadapted te 'et 'act said I guide and Salad means extendsaidguiderelative to said frame.

v.In testimony whereof I afiix signa-

